IRAN: A Deal with The Orphans

"A step backward, a
mess, enough to make one nauseous." So said Shahpour Bakhtiar, the
Shah's last Prime Minister, at a 90-minute press conference in Paris,
where he emerged from a half-year of hiding to denounce the
revolutionary government that toppled him in February after barely more
than a month in office. Bakhtiar, who is on the regime's wanted list of
former officials charged with high crimes, accused Ayatullah Ruhollah
Khomeini of lacking "a master idea" for Iran and predicted that the
waste and corruption under the Islamic...